On November 11, IBA Group took part in the international conference IT in Metallurgy that was held in Moscow, Russia, as the event’s gold partner.

Organized by Metal Supplies and Sales monthly and IDC Russia with support from the Russian Union of Metal and Steel Suppliers, the 5th annual conference “IT in Metallurgy” was conducted within Moscow Metal Week and Metal-Expo 2010 tradeshow. More than 120 top managers of metallurgical companies and IT vendors attended the event.

As the economy recovers, both investors and senior managers focus on optimization of current processes and planning for future to use the current phase of the investment cycle to their best advantage.

Conference topics:

• Strategic objectives for CIOs when the economy is bouncing back
• Enhancement of efficiency management and reduction of manufacturing costs
• Metallurgy: key performance indicators (KPI)
• Executive dashboards, BI solutions
• Infrastructure optimization and IT services management
• Global supply network sourcing, asset utilization
• Customer relationship management and total supply network cost
• The role of IT director at an enterprise

At the conference, IBA delivered a presentation entitled “Using IT for continuous improvement of enterprise production system”. IBA spoke on how to increase production efficiency of metallurgical company using Business Intelligence (BI) based on IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects, and corporate production data storage systems.

At the IBA Group booth, representatives of IBA Minsk and IBA Rus provided numerous consultations on the implementation of the IBA solutions at the enterprises of metallurgical industry.